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| 2006-2007 Records: 5-14 MIAC, 7-16 Overall |
| Last Week's Results: St. Catherine 91, Saint Mary's 43 / Details Saint Mary's 57, Carleton 51 / Details Saint Mary's 58, Augsburg 45 / Details |
| Upcoming Games: Wed., Feb. 14: SMU at Bethel, 7:45 Sat., Feb. 17: Concordia at SMU, 3:00 |
| Cardinal News and Notes: SMU's wins over Carleton and Augsburg marked the Cardinals' first two-game winning streak of the season. …The Cardinals' win vs. Augsburg snapped SMU's 11-game road losing streak. Kelly Tanke (La Crosse, Wis.) netted a career-high 24 points in SMU's win over Carleton Wednesday. … The Cardinals' win vs. the Knights snapped a six-game losing streak, as well as a 10-game slide vs. Carleton. … Tanke's game-high 17 points vs. Augsburg marked the 19th time in SMU's 23 games that she or Jessica Weisbrod (Rollingstone, Minn.) has led the team in scoring. … The Knights held Weisbrod, SMU's scoring leader, to seven points last Wednesday, snapping the Cardinal junior's streak of eight straight games scoring in double figures. It was also just the second time in SMU's last 13 games that Weisbrod has not scored 10 or more points. … Weisbrod bounced back by scoring 13 points and adding 10 rebounds against Augsburg en route to her sixth double-double of the season. … With Saturday's 58-point effort, SMU has now won six of its seven games by scoring fewer than 60 points. … St. Catherine’s 91 points scored last Monday were the most allowed by SMU this season and the most scored since Concordia poured in 92 in a 92-53 victory over Saint Mary’s on Jan. 15, 2000. … The Cardinals managed just 19 first-half points vs. St. Catherine last Monday. Monday’s first-half performance marked the 10th time this season that SMU has scored 20 or fewer points in a half. |
Cardinals to first 2-game winning streak of season
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Tanke Scored a career-high 24 points vs. Augsburg |
In fact, a sub 20-point half has been all too commonplace for the Cardinals — who had been held under the 20-point mark for a half 10 times heading into last Saturday's game against Augsburg.
This time around, however, Stimmel got to enjoy the view from the other side of that scenario, as SMU held the Auggies to 18 points in the second half, rallying from a 27-26 halftime deficit to beat Augsburg 58-45.
"It's nice to see us put together two straight solid performances," said Stimmel, whose team is enjoying its first two-game winning streak of the season — thanks to Wednesday's 57-51 upset win over Carleton and Saturday's victory over the Auggies. "We talked a little before the St. Catherine game (on Monday), and we decided that our goal was to finish above .500 in our last five games.
"(Saturday's) win puts us at 2-1, so we're well on our way."
Thanks in large part to the inside-outside tag team of Kelly Tanke (La Crosse, Wis.) and Jessica Weisbrod (Rollingstone, Minn.).
Tanke drained 4 of 10 3-point attempts en route to her game-high 17 points, while Weisbrod was a force inside, scoring 13 points and adding 10 rebounds for her sixth double-double of the season.
After a see-saw first half in which neither team led by more than six, the Cardinals used a pair of second-half runs — a 12-2 run to take a 44-34 lead with 11:57 left and a 12-3 run in the game's final eight minutes — to ice the victory.
"Jess and Kelly played very well, but this win was a total team effort," said Stimmel. "We struggled a little bit in the first half, but hung right with them, and then turned our game up a notch in the second half.
"Our goal is to continue to play the game the way we are capable of playing over the last week of the season," Stimmel added. "If we can do that, we not close out the season on a high note, but it also gives us some momentum as we head into the off-season and into next year."